In other news today...
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
I don't think I'd put my money towards supporting a group like Outreachy, but I most definitely wouldn't tell someone else that they couldn't set up and fund such a thing if that's what they really wanted to do.
How dare you have such an open and tolerating opinion on the matter??
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Antwerp erects new statue ...
Not featured in the article: it's actually a fountain ... I'll leave the flow of the water to your imagination
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
TIL that trans-women are a group "traditionally underrepresented in tech".
Are you suggesting they're not? Because I don't see any trans women in my office today, and I'm not sure I've ever worked with one
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
Are you suggesting they're not? Because I don't see any trans women in my office today, and I'm not sure I've ever worked with one
Well, to be underrepresented, they'd need to be less common than on average in society. You also have to account for a rather small pool to pick from. I've worked with at least one, and I have suspicions about someone I am currently working with being a mtf trans, not that I've cared enough to ask and she's not said anything about it so I don't know for sure about that one. ftm trans is something I've not really come across in the workplace.
And I may have worked with several trans that were good enough transitions to not stand out, nor talk about their genetic gender. I just don't really care. At work, I just want people to be competent at their work so I don't have to do their job as well.
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
TIL that trans-women are a group "traditionally underrepresented in tech".
Are you suggesting they're not? Because I don't see any trans women in my office today, and I'm not sure I've ever worked with one
There used to be one who posted here.
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
Are you suggesting they're not? Because I don't see any trans women in my office today, and I'm not sure I've ever worked with one
I was under the impression that trans women are rather more common in tech than in most other places, yes.
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
There used to be one who posted here.
As I understand it, she still does.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
As I understand it, she still does.
No. Not for many years.
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@boomzilla Maybe we're thinking of different people, then.
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@anotherusername Clearly.
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@luhmann This headline is better
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@hardwaregeek Jesus, anything that gets Amazon to slow the fuck down on construction is ok by me. There's not a single block in South Lake Union that doesn't have 28 dumptrucks on it, every fucking road and sidewalk is closed constantly, noise, dirt, it's a hellscape of construction.
I actually blame Seattle for not having any mechanism to deny a construction permit on the basis of "there's already 47 active construction permits active in this 3-block area, and for fuck's sake people have to live and work here, slow the fuck down". It's fucking ridiculous right now.
At least, unlike the Bay Area, we're actually building housing more-or-less on-par with the amount needed.
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@hardwaregeek From a part of the article you didn't cite, City Councilmember Mike O’Brien said:
If Amazon generally wants to engage about how they can be part of the solution, we welcome that conversation. But we need companies that are profitable and making billions of dollars every year to help with the folks that are being forced out of housing and ending up on the street.
I think this is very germane to the discussion. If Amazon is contributing to the problem of pricing people out of their homes in Seattle, as Microsoft has done to Redmond over the last few decades, then that's an externality that they ought to pay to alleviate, and if they don't, the system is broken.
Economics. Aren't they learning it yet?
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
I think this is very germane to the discussion. If Amazon is contributing to the problem of pricing people out of their homes in Seattle, as Microsoft has done to Redmond over the last few decades, then that's an externality that they ought to pay to alleviate, and if they don't, the system is broken.
No.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@hardwaregeek From a part of the article you didn't cite, City Councilmember Mike O’Brien said:
If Amazon generally wants to engage about how they can be part of the solution, we welcome that conversation. But we need companies that are profitable and making billions of dollars every year to help with the folks that are being forced out of housing and ending up on the street.
I think this is very germane to the discussion. If Amazon is contributing to the problem of pricing people out of their homes in Seattle, as Microsoft has done to Redmond over the last few decades, then that's an externality that they ought to pay to alleviate, and if they don't, the system is broken.
Economics. Aren't they learning it yet?
They can fix it. They can move all those jobs elsewhere. Problem solved.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
No.
Maybe the Seattle city council is going about it the wrong way (and I'm sure as a registered Nazi you wouldn't agree with any solution they come up with), but at least they're cognizant of the problem unlike the dipshits in the Bay Area.
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@blakeyrat You seem a bit uncharitable today. While calling people uncharitable.
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@magus Maybe because just a few minutes ago I had to make a "fuck you, asshole" list and it put me in a bad mood.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
No.
Maybe the Seattle city council is going about it the wrong way (and I'm sure as a registered Nazi you wouldn't agree with any solution they come up with), but at least they're cognizant of the problem unlike the dipshits in the Bay Area.
Dear Sir,
It appears that you have directed your reply to the wrong person. However, I am happy to hear that city elders aren't preventing developers from increasing the available stock of housing in your local area.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@magus Maybe because just a few minutes ago I had to make a "fuck you, asshole" list and it put me in a bad mood.
Am I on that list?
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@blakeyrat Fair, that seems like a reason to call people nazis and imply that they hate all of their fellow humans in an unrelated thread.
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@magus He calls me a Nazi because I don't share his vision of a Communist Cuban paradise. I think. Who really knows?
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
If Amazon is contributing to the problem of pricing people out of their homes in Seattle, as Microsoft has done to Redmond over the last few decades, then that's an externality that they ought to pay to alleviate, and if they don't, the system is broken.
I thought raising the minimum wage to $15 was supposed to solve the "people in Seattle can't afford homes in Seattle" problem. Why is it still a problem? Why's it Amazon's fault? Why's it Amazon's fault for creating new jobs and paying good wages?
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
They can fix it. They can move all those jobs elsewhere. Problem solved.
Or just hike the minimum wage up to $50. Then everyone will be able to afford the housing. Problem solved.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
Or just hike the minimum wage up to $50. Then everyone will be able to afford the housing. Problem solved.
It would cure all the traffic problems, too! BONUS
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
Why's it Amazon's fault? Why's it Amazon's fault for creating new jobs and paying good wages?
They should stop that. That would fix all the housing issues. Move all those jobs elsewhere and you will see the housing prices drop drastically.
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Instead of this dumb conversation, how about:
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Yikes. That's a lot of shares.
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@magus said in In other news today...:
Instead of this dumb conversation, how about:
I just had some ridiculously hot food for lunch. The next volcano eruption will be in my bathroom, probably around 2 or 3 AM. If you live in the Midwest, you might want to preemptively evacuate.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Yikes. That's a lot of shares.
Many years ago I read a book by Warren Buffett where he said that Berkshire Hathaway had to be careful with its investments because they had so much purchasing power that they had the power to make or break companies with their trading.
I guess he forgot that part?
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@polygeekery I assume he just really likes his iPhone.
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@boomzilla I didn't know drivers were getting that desperate to find a parking spot...
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And there it happened. Nvidia has cancelled the GPP.
Nvidia claimed in its blog that it’s shutting down the GPP because it would prefer to cancel the program “rather than battling misinformation.” The company further dismissed the allegations of wrongdoing by claiming that the program was quite transparent, and that no bad blood existed between Nvidia and its AIB partners
Ah, yes. "Transparent" and "no bad blood". There's not like they refused to answer questions about it, or had the threat of being dragged to court by a few of their partners or anything...
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@atazhaia Notorious GPP is my favourite nerd rapper
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@atazhaia Unrelated except by company:
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
he hasn't been shy about his bull case for Apple.
That's how I feel about Apple, too. Wait, bull case. Never mind.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Yikes. That's a lot of shares.
*wince*
I thought Buffett was smarter than that, but he's going to lose his shirt on this, unless he has some plan for being an activist investor and really shaking things up at Apple. They've been losing relevance ever since Android became mature enough to be a serious competitor to iOS, and it's just been accelerating since Steve Jobs died.
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https://medium.com/@trybravery/please-stop-using-adblock-but-not-why-you-think-13280e76c8e7
Good summary of why, even if you want ad blocking, you shouldn't use Adblock's scummy extortion-based implementation of it. (Author recommends uBlock Origin instead.)
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Coming up next, schools remove books because students complain they can't read.
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HTC's next phone will be...
An iPhone
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@timebandit Company uses stock footage in an announcement. News at 11.
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@masonwheeler My impression is not that it was stock footage, but deliberately false clues as an intentional publicity stunt.
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@bulb said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler My impression is not that it was stock footage, but deliberately false clues as an intentional publicity stunt.
They thought about using Samsung's phone stock photos, but then realized that people might think they where introducing a new explosive device
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Gorske has eaten two Big Macs every day since 1972.
Why would you do that
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Yikes. That's a lot of shares.
*wince*
I thought Buffett was smarter than that, but he's going to lose his shirt on this, unless he has some plan for being an activist investor and really shaking things up at Apple. They've been losing relevance ever since Android became mature enough to be a serious competitor to iOS, and it's just been accelerating since Steve Jobs died.
He may just want the inside scoop?
Or he was just bored and wanted to cause some mayhem to amuse himself, much like you children with a magnifying glass and an anthill... Imagine the hellstorm when he just dumps all of the shares like yesterdays panties.
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Criminals in the news:
“This type of behavior is pretty consistent with drug use,” said sheriff’s office spokesperson Amanda Vicinanzo.
I guess so.
Stick to what you know!
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
TIL that trans-women are a group "traditionally underrepresented in tech".
Are you suggesting they're not? Because I don't see any trans women in my office today, and I'm not sure I've ever worked with one
If you can't tell until you hear their voices, they're the good kind. Not all of them have to be dyed-hair obnoxious cunts (or is it dicks?). I'll bet you have a couple but you just never noticed.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@magus Maybe because just a few minutes ago I had to make a "fuck you, asshole" list and it put me in a bad mood.
Am I on that list?
It'd be easier to count the number of people not on that list than the number of people on that list.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@magus Maybe because just a few minutes ago I had to make a "fuck you, asshole" list and it put me in a bad mood.
Am I on that list?
It'd be easier to count the number of people not on that list than the number of people on that list.
I see it as a badge of honor.